This is how you know he’s the ML!
Anyway I am reading the latest in Danielle Jensen’s awesome Bridge Kingdom series. The first two books were about the sister of this ML, called Lara who was brought up as a poison pill of a bride - spy and assassin - to marry into the wealthy and reclusive Bridge Kingdom and get info that would allow monster daddy to take it from within. Alas for daddy, she hated him and liked her new husband so awesomeness ensued. My favorite is book 2 where her husband is captured and thinks she betrayed him and the kingdom and meanwhile Lara gets readied for war to rescue for war and rescue because whether he is right to hate her or not they can hash out when he’s freed.
Anyway the following novels are about Keris, Lara’s only decent brother (who daddy hates for not being a monster and who just wants to be a scholar not a fighter) and Zarrah, the best general of another enemy kingdom.
I think you see why I like the series - like Gong Xinwen in English with BAMF battle goddess/murder machine ladies rescuing their beautiful and less good at battle men 😝
ETA: this is FL - genius general’s - trauma:
And she’s gonna hook up with the son of a man who did this, cannot wait!
Btw the novel is called The Inadequate Heir and here is the glorious summary:
Heeeee! It’s everything I like in one. Apparently the second book of this particular duology is not coming out until November booo but that summary is even more glorious:
